Abstract
Epidemiology, population health, and health impact assessment.
Highlights
As epidemiology is one of the essential disciplines of public health, its major aim is to contribute to fulfilment of the definition of public health as “a science and art to promote health and prevent disease by organized effort of society”.1 to improve the health status of the population, the knowledge produced by epidemiology needs to be used and translated into interventions
Because the goal of Health impact assessment (HIA) is to assess potential future impacts of projects, plans, strategies, and policies on health,[4] HIA projects intervene in the environment
All of these stakeholders constitute the steering group, which usually directs an HIA. These key conditions suggest how epidemiology contributes to HIA and why HIA is needed beyond epidemiology
Summary
As epidemiology is one of the essential disciplines of public health, its major aim is to contribute to fulfilment of the definition of public health as “a science and art to promote health and prevent disease by organized effort of society”.1 to improve the health status of the population, the knowledge produced by epidemiology needs to be used and translated into interventions. Epidemiology has a long tradition and has created a wealth of accumulated experience to assess micro-environments and specific agents that may impact health. Because the goal of HIA is to assess potential future impacts of projects, plans, strategies, and policies on health,[4] HIA projects intervene in the environment.
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